Forbes: “After six and a half years of war, al
Assad's enemies are scurrying back to him. Insurgents with the combined backing
of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
and lesser powers failed to dislodge him. “Nothing succeeds like success, and
al Assad's tenacity has forced his enemies to recognize that he is not going away."
By
December 30, 2017
…by Jonas E. Alexis
The Jerusalem Post has recognized that
Vladimir Putin was the man of the year. On December 14, journalist, writers,
reporters, and people of various stripes—1,600 of them—asked Putin questions
after questions for three hours. Can you think of any US president doing the
same thing?
Keep in mind that Putin doesn’t dodge questions. He
is focused, and he always try to build his answers on the moral and political
order, which British and American representatives despise.
Remember how he destroyed people like Megyn Kelly,
Fareed Zakaria, Charlie Rose, BBC journalist
John Simpson, among others? Putin gets his audience’s attention because he
always tries to get to the central issues, particularly when it comes to examining
the worldview that comes to dominate US foreign policy. The Jerusalem Post says:
“Putin’s tour of the Middle East caps a year of
change in the region that has seen Islamic State almost completely defeated in
Iraq and Syria, and the hopes of the Arab Spring and the one-time powerful US
neo-conservative agenda of democratization fade.”[1]
Two things to highlight here: ISIS is defeated in
Syria, and the Neoconservative ideology in the region is waning precisely
because Russia didn’t allow the Neocons to have their cake and it too.
That’s one reason why the Neoconservative flagship,
the Weekly Standard, reluctantly admitted in 2015 that “Putin is the new
sheriff in town.”[2] Even Israel, according to the New
York Times itself, “knows that Putin is the Middle East’s new sheriff.”[3]
The Jerusalem Post astonishingly admits
that Saudi Arabia’s “Wahhabi ideology had influenced many extremist groups in
the 20th century,”[4] but the same Post didn’t
explain to its readers why both Israel and the United States have been
supporting Saudi Arabia since the beginning of time.
Saudi Arabia has been using the same ideology to
liquidate Yemeni men, women and children for years, but both the United States
and Israel would like to tell the world that Iran—the very country that has
been fighting terrorist cells in Syria—is the new Hitler in town.
Do you now see why the New World Order doesn’t
really make sense? Do you now see that this worldview is essentially diabolical
and is therefore against the very fabric of moral and political order? Do you
now see why it was easy for Putin to win 2017?
Syrian children can play again.
This is not a matter of “worshiping” Putin or
supporting everything he ever did; it is a matter of putting some order
in this chaotic and diabolical world. And whether you are for or against Putin,
the fact on the table now is undisputable: The Neocons lost the Syrian war;
Syrians are happier than before; Israel is mad and sad; and the New World Order
fears Vladimir Putin and Russia. Even Newsweek and Forbes, of
all places, have reluctantly and incoherently conceded this fact.[5] Listen to Forbes very carefully
here:
“After six and a half years of war, al Assad’s
enemies are scurrying back to him. Insurgents with the combined backing of the
United States, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and
lesser powers failed to dislodge him.
“Nothing succeeds like success, and al Assad’s
tenacity has forced his enemies to recognize that he is not going away.
Washington has stopped demanding regime change, as President Barack Obama and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did.
“CIA Director Mike Pompeo telephoned al Assad’s
military intelligence chief, Ali Mamlouk, last January to ask for help in
finding missing American journalist Austin Tice but also to obtain information
on al Assad’s jihadist enemies who might threaten the United States.
“The British have sent diplomatic feelers to
Damascus, and European states that withdrew their ambassadors in 2012 are
sending them on regular missions to the Syrian capital.
“‘No one is able to say, ‘Sorry, I was wrong,’
explained a Western source close to secret discussions between al Assad and the
West. ‘French diplomats ask me how to get out of this.’ The Egyptians, who
initially supported the rebellion against the Syrian president, now support
him.
“The Iraqis, America’s allies in the war against
the Islamic State, have sent him military aid. Even neighboring Jordan, which
permitted the CIA to train Syrian insurgents on its territory, says relations
with its occasional adversary are ‘likely to take a positive turn.’”[6]
As Salon itself has declared, this is
something to celebrate,[7] as 2017 is ending. VT writers and
editors have worked very hard over the years to expose the Israeli regime and
the US empire behind the Syrian war. Thanks to all. Let’s give the regime and
empire a hard time in 2018.
- [1] Seth
J. Frantzman, “How 2017 became the year of Putin,” Jerusalem Post,
December 30, 2017.
- [2] Lee
Smith, “Putin Is the New Sheriff in Town,” Weekly Standard, October
6, 2015.
- [3] Shmuel
Rosner, “Israel Knows That Putin Is the Middle East’s New Sheriff,” NY
Times, October 17, 2016.
- [4] Frantzman,
“How 2017 became the year of Putin,” Jerusalem Post, December 30,
2017.
- [5] Tom
O’Connor, “How the U.S. Lost the War in Syria to Russia and Iran,” Newsweek,
October 11, 2017; Charles Glass, “The Syrian Civil War Is Decided,” Forbes,
October 26, 2017.
- [6] Glass,
“The Syrian Civil War Is Decided,” Forbes, October 26, 2017.
- [7] Patrick
Lawrence, “American policy totally failed in Syria — let’s be
thankful,” Salon, November 26, 2017.
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